Usher
American R&B singer · United States · On the map · Musicians · Born 1978 · age 48
He turned confessional R&B into a string of number-ones across three decades, sold over 100 million records, and delivered the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show of 2024. Rolling Stone calls him one of the greatest singers ever; Billboard named him the top Hot 100 artist of the 2000s.
Usher is read about 2,723 times a day, in 79 languages.
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Justin Bieber Duets: Somebody To Love, Peaches and First Dance
Sean Combs Produced Usher and Think of You
Ludacris Duets: Yeah!, Peaches and Rest of My Life
Lil Jon Duets: Yeah! and Lovers & Friends
Jermaine Dupri Produced Confessions and Raymond v. Raymond- Polow da Don Produced Here I Stand and Love in This Club
Michael Jackson Influenced Usher, duets: Stop Playin'
will.i.am Duets: What's Your Name (2008)
Harvey Weinstein Produced She's All That and The Faculty
Babyface Produced My Way, 8701 and Bedtime
Bob Weinstein Produced She's All That and The Faculty
Snoop Dogg Usher produced Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)
Rick Ross Duets: Lemme See, Fed Up and Touch'N You
Pharrell Williams Produced U Don't Have to Call (2002)
Alicia Keys Duets: My Boo and Super Bowl LVIII halftime show
David Guetta Produced Without You (2011)
Lil Wayne Duets: Love in This Club Part II (2008)
Chris Brown Duets: Party and Better on the Other Side
RedOne Produced Dirty Dancer and More
Gucci Mane Duets: Spotlight and Party
Jeezy Duets: Love in This Club and Fed Up
Max Martin Produced DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love and Scream
L.A. Reid Produced Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and 8701
Scooter Braun Produced Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)
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Usher arriving in Miami, Florida, to attend the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards
Usher performing at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in 2009
Usher on the OMG Tour in 2010
Usher performing in 2010
Usher on the URX Tour in 2014
Usher at the 2015 Global Citizen Festival
Usher at the Kennedy Center in 2019Awards
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Usher Raymond IV released his first album at 15 in 1994, then broke through three years later with My Way and the slow-burn hit "Nice & Slow". 8701 in 2001 gave him two more chart-toppers, but Confessions in 2004 changed the game - four consecutive number-ones, including "Yeah!" and "Burn", and it remains the best-selling album by a Black artist of the 21st century. He kept the streak alive with "Love in This Club" in 2008, then "OMG" in 2010, making him one of the few to top the Hot 100 in three straight decades. Later albums leaned into electronic sounds - Looking 4 Myself, Hard II Love, and Coming Home in 2024, the same year his Super Bowl LVIII halftime show pulled 123 million US viewers. Along the way he co-founded the label that launched Justin Bieber, started a youth nonprofit in 1999, and stacked up eight Grammys and a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
